Rolling OMG BUY PETROL thread

but where? and Why?

re where : my little hometown in the cotswolds
re : why ?
tomorrow i am supposed to be taking the tribe to the lake district.
genuinely wondering whether to not bother ..

Similar pos: Kids were booked in to stay at grandparents in NE.

problem is that this could be the last family holiday we get, and so therefore, there is a emotional need to have some quality time as a family.

the last thing i needed was this f*cking stupidity hanging over the whole week.

the scale of political ineptitude that has caused this collective insanity is quite literally beyond belief.

uh oh.

"Woman suffers 40% burns when petrol ignited as she was transferring it to containers in her kitchen, North Yorkshire fire and rescue service says. More details soon ..."

I fear there will be more of that, and soon.

what's goin on?

Sounds like she was decanting petrol next to her gas stove, which was lit.

A few Labour types suggesting Maude should resign over the matter. Not sure he should be held directly responsible for people doing daft things at home, but clearly the government have made the situation far worse that it would have been.

From the BBC:

A fire service spokesman said: "Her daughter asked her mum for petrol because she had run out. The cooker was on and the fumes ignited."

Station manager Lee Smith, whose Acomb crew attended the fire, said: "The people were cooking their tea and dispensing petrol from a container to a glass jug.

"The vapour then ignited, the jug was then spilt which obviously ignited as well and the person involved in the decanting was consumed by the flames."

Maude probably shdn't be held directly responsible for shit like this, but journos will be really struggling not to use metaphors like "fanned the flames" when discussing his work this week.

Maude is an idiot who should have known better.

Maude is not the woman in the kitchen.

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg878/scaled.php?tn=0&server=878&filename=2ohar.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

why has nobody called for the dalai lama to resign

A bit league of gentleman this

Local fuel kept for local people

A holidaymaker trying to return to Eastbourne from Cornwall in her motorhome has been denied fuel at a garage because she was not local.

Annie, who would not provide her surname, said Kynance Garage on The Lizard would not allow her any fuel because she was not from the area.

Garage owner, Henry Johnson, said he was "forced to ration fuel" for account holders and to £10 for locals.

Annie said she would not be returning to the county.
'Locals only'

She said: "We were due to go home and the campsite owner told us to go to the garage, but he took a look at our motorhome and said 'you're not local are you'?"

She said she told Mr Johnson that the vehicle only needed a top-up of diesel to reach Eastbourne but "he said 'no I can't sell you any, locals and account holders only'".

Mr Johnson did contact another garage in the area to help the family out but it had run out of fuel. The holidaymakers later managed to get fuel at a supermarket garage.

Annie said: "We've spent quite a lot of money in Cornwall, it's where I grew up and it was a trip down memory lane and until that point it had been lovely, but it's put us off completely."

The owner said his supplies were "running low" and he was not expecting a delivery of fuel until after the weekend.

The distance between Kynance Garage and Eastbourne is 315 miles (507km).